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- Comment on Ska ftw 3 days ago:
Industrial: The world is broken and has been for a while so let’s go to the abandoned husk of the inner city, throw a party, and make insane music before it crashes down around our ears.
- Comment on Ska ftw 3 days ago:
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 week ago:
Considering that a poor grade would just result in re-taking the class next semester, foul play would probably be worth the cost of those credit-hours.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s pretty awful. The pandemic taught us all that enough people are gross like that.
At this point, I just assume that every airport is packed to the gills with coronavirus. I mask up, avoid eating with my hands, try not to eat much at all, and wash thoroughly. That said, I ate at a sit-down restaruant at O’hare this summer and immediately caught it anyway; my flight was delayed and i was ravenous.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 week ago:
No kidding. Every time I fly I wind up on the same flight with a bunch of people that hit up an all-you-can-eat chili buffet the night before. They proudly let the entire cabin know this the very instant we hit cruising altitude.
The only upside here is that not even first-class is safe. I really feel bad for the flight attendants.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 1 week ago:
It’s worth mentioning that the flatogenic index of that kind of eating is off the chart. If anyone reading this has a diet like that please, for the love of everything good in this world, get a job that is outdoors.
- Comment on It's the truth! 1 week ago:
What really breaks my brain is that the pigment responsible for this purple hue are called anthocyanins. It literally has the root-word for blue in the name, even though that’s not the only color it can make.
- Comment on fusion dance 1 week ago:
Thanks for the rabbit hole. Here’s a youtube video of that screencap.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJerbSVIBEQ
And here’s a (VHS quality) archive of the whole show. It includes all the advertisments too, so it’s quite the time-capsule:
- Comment on Na Na Na Na Na Na 1 week ago:
It’s even
betterworse if you hear it at a dead mall, with hardly anyone around and almost no open stores. - Comment on Typical monopoly people 2 weeks ago:
Not to long ago, I was mourning the loss of the Conversatron 3000. It was a forum site that was nothing but comedy writers, using the medium to tell a flavor of joke and observational humor that could only work on that medium. A lot of it had this formula of “dumb question/observation”, “dumber retort”, “setup”, and finally “witty punchline.” Sometimes, that would just thread on for multiple rounds. Rarely, threads were open to user comments too.
Now I understand why that hasn’t come back. We don’t need it anymore.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 2 weeks ago:
IMO, some people think that being educated means achieving mountains of rote memorization, and little else. Some of those people also become teachers.
This may also be why there’s a big row every time someone changes what algorithms are taught in basic maths (in the US, anyway).
- Comment on This bedroom game is weird 2 weeks ago:
Oh man. I was having a good day and everything.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 2 weeks ago:
I cannot overstate the impact the mid-nineties had on GPAs across the board.
This picture doesn’t even show the full depth and breadth of the PC market at the time. Arcades had some strong offerings at this time, too.
- Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, this is a golden teachable moment in critical thinking. Jr here is starting to ponder the implausibility of a myth. Encourage more thought, guide away from magical thinking, answer their questions honestly, and reward them for arriving at better answers. Then follow up with a big reward as they’ll probably feel a tad disillusioned when it’s all over.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on It will be great, they said... 3 weeks ago:
unfucking postfix
This is not a task for the feint of heart, nor was it ever, even back when the technology was first invented. I salute you.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to call it like I saw it, a very long time ago.
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You have an “open” product that is basically purpose built to make data hoarding and piracy practical, yet it requires a login with a central service. I don’t care what justification anyone thinks makes that worthwhile or even a good compromise. Signaling to any corporate entity that you’re in possession of such a thing is a bad idea to begin with. They shouldn’t even know you exist. That information, along with anything else you do with the product is compromising to you and can be sold for money if aggregated with everyone else’s data.
If you find this rant out of place in our modern world, I’d like to point to the concept of shifting baselines. This didn’t used to be normal and nothing short of greed continues the behavior. The technology before this ran/runs without anyone knowing. Consider VLC, or XBMC.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 3 weeks ago:
To quote your quote:
I got the product launched. It worked. I was proud of what I’d created. Then came the moment that validated every concern in that MIT study: I needed to make a small change and realized I wasn’t confident I could do it. My own product, built under my direction, and I’d lost confidence in my ability to modify it.
I think the author just independently rediscovered “middle management”. Indeed, when you delegate the gruntwork under your responsibility, those same people are who you go to when addressing bugs and new requirements. It’s not on you to effect repairs: it’s on your team. I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise. The idea that relying on AI to do nuanced work like this and arrive at the exact correct answer to the problem, is naive at best. I’d be sweating too.
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 4 weeks ago:
In a small, anecdotal way, I can say with confidence that the level of fiber trenching that happened (in a major metro area) from late 1999 through 2002 was on a whole other level.
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 4 weeks ago:
And just like that, the e-machine continues to fulfill its intended purpose: browse the internet like it’s 1998. It’s never obsolete, but you do need a time machine to take full advantage of it.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 5 weeks ago:
I’ll take it one step further and say that if you absolutely must use Office, O365 works in a browser on any operating system. You literally don’t need Windows anymore for that.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 5 weeks ago:
My prediction is that they’ll go full SaaS and make the non-pro version “free”, with a whole raft of features “cloud only” behind a Azure/O365 subscription.
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 5 weeks ago:
Wow. Either someone was too lazy to turn of the default settings, or figured it was appropriate to ask. Either way, that’s some shocking lack-of-awareness going on.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 5 weeks ago:
Landlord: You shot me!
Tennant: Yup. Take a look. At least I didn’t fuck up the paint or the carpet.
- Comment on Radon 1 month ago:
Honest.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
Solid list!
but i always felt those two game designs were kissing cousin
I see them as the same genre. You have this “pushing the map’s frontier” mechanic, along with some power or item progression to enable that. The rest is find-and-seek to connect all those dots. IMO, the only major difference is a side vs top-down perspective.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 1 month ago:
junk food vegan
I’ve seen this with my own eyes, but didn’t know there was a common name. Indeed it is possible to be slothful, fat, and practically live off of peanut-butter, all at the same time. The intent was there, but complete nutrition was not.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
Dear Microsoft CEO and C-suite people.
Push back on your investors now before it’s too late. AI features are ruining your product and its image.
A lot of companies are tied in up this AI bubble and Microsoft is not too big to fail in this regard. Your customer-base has gotten by just fine without AI and invasive screen-capture technology used to support it, for decades at this point. Most people see your product as an operating system: a product designed to support other products. They do not want more capabilities from it, and have come to rely on good support for hardware compatibility, stability updates, performance updates, and most importantly, security updates. It is the darling of OEM PC installs, and government and commercial enterprise continue to renew their site licenses because of it. These are the core features that will continue to bring value and keep people on your platform, not AI.
If you firmly believe that agentic AI is the future, make it an optional installable product or a completely distinct operating system altogether. This is strategic since it has radically different marketing needs than Windows or Windows Professional, and supports a distinct subset of your overall install base. Foisting this feature set on your existing users is doing nothing more than artificially inflate adoption numbers, and you’re risking the entire enterprise to think your investors don’t already know this. It’s not smart, it’s not even brinksmanship or a bold technology decision. It’s reckless.
